Homecoming-a time for students of the past, present, and future to revel in all of FAMU’s glory; a time to wallow in the majestic orange and green and celebrate that good old fashioned rattler pride, but have many of our rattler’s lost the spirit? With every guest speaker or hot […]

This year will mark the 100th anniversary for homecoming festivities and this year there are more events to celebrate homecoming than in past years. The Tom Joyner Sky Show, the nationally-syndicated radio show hosted by Tom Joyner and his comedic sidekicks, Jay Anthony Brown and Sybil, will be recorded live […]

Due to the magnitude FAMU’s homecoming, a major concern of the Tallahassee Police Department is safety.   Every year, homecoming brings a crowd of people from across the country to Florida’s capital city.  The safety concern is not only for those who live here, but also for visitors. TPD’s main […]

As students, faculty and alumni prepare to indulge in the festivities of Homecoming, we must first stop and ask ourselves if this is the institution our founders envisioned. My guess would be no. Apart from being praised as the number one college in the country in 1997, this university has […]

While keeping many old homecoming events, FAMU will add some new ones this year. FAMU students and faculty worked hard to organize groups to create a homecoming that students and alumni will not forget. As always, homecoming will be filled with entertainment like galas and fashion shows for alumni and […]

The “5 Days 4 Hours 3 HBCU’s” fundraising blitz to support HBCU’s affected by hurricane Katrina will be held Oct. 11-14 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Money collected will be donated to the Tom Joyner Relief Fund. For more information contact Kristin Taylor at Taykris@ameritech.net The FAMU Essential Theatre […]

Atlanta Braves rookies, Brian McCann and Jeff Francoeur, really are living the dream. The Athens, Ga. natives and current roommates can say that they not only got a chance to play for their childhood favorites, but they both had an immediate impact on the team. Francoeur took all of the […]

When most people think of the Florida A & M University Developmental Research School, or DRS, they may know it as “that school next to the University.” However, it is much more than that; in particular, the sports program, which has produced Sam Madison, cornerback for the Miami Dolphins and […]

Led by senior Omar Osborne, the Men’s Cross Country team finished sixth out of 30 teams in Saturday’s Disney Cross Country Classic at Walt Disney’s Wide World of Sports, in Lake Beuna Vista, Fla., with the team crown going to the University of Florida. In any event held at Walt […]

Legal issues could prove to be a problem for Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. According to a recent New York Times article, Pfizer is being sued for some of the marketing it provided for its anti-cholesterol drug Lipitor. The Teamsters and a consumer group filed the lawsuit, citing […]